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Whaling Station
Title : Whaling Station Whaling Station
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Creator : Snell, Edward artist
Place Of Creation : Victor Harbor
Date of creation : 1850
Format : Photograph
Dimensions : 250 x 217 mm
Contributor : State Library of South Australia
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Description :

Whaling Station at Encounter Bay, and black snake drawn by Edward Snell on Christmas Day 1850. (Original sketches from Snell's diary held in State Library of Victoria's Australian Manuscripts Collection and published by that Library in 1988.)

Snell writes that the snake had been killed by sheep near a shepherd's hut at Tunkalilla where he and his party had stayed on Christmas Day 1850.

Snell arrived at Port Adelaide in 1849 aboard the Bolton and later, in 1852, went to the Victorian goldfields.
Subjects
Period : 1836-1851
Region : Fleurieu Peninsula
Further reading :

Kostoglou, Parry and Justin McCarthy. Whaling and sealing sites in South Australia, compiled by Jeni Paay, Adelaide : State Heritage Branch, Dept. of Environment and Planning, 1991

Snell, Edward. The life and adventures of Edward Snell : the illustrated diary of an artist, engineer and adventurer in the Australian colonies 1849 to 1859, North Ryde, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson and The Library Council of Victoria, 1988.
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